Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.